[tylerjd]

I agree with most of what you said, but Kaby Lake had issues with Hyperthreading, and Haswell had to fully disable the TXT extensions, both modified (fixed/disabled) through microcode updates. You could say Intel hasn't had great press either.

That being said, I still agree AMD still needs to prove their new platform in the server space.

[bonzini]

For what it's worth, it's TSX (hardware transactional memory), not TXT (secure firmware). It's a very niche feature, compared to hyperthreading.